False bottom.



-PATBNTIID JULY 21, 1908.

J. KLINE. FALSE BOTTOM.

APPIi-IOATION FILED MAY 17, 1907.

3mm IlUHN KLIN To all whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES na'rsn'r OFFICE.

JOHN KLINE, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

FALSE BO'ITQIVL Specification of Letters Patent,

fi atented July'21, 1908.

Be it known that I, J OHN KLINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee,

' in the county ofMilwaukee and State of Wis consin, have invented certain new and useful I111 rovements in False Bottoms; and I, do

dec are the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it a pertains to make and use the same.

T is invention relates to new and useful.

improvements in false perforated bottoms for stew pans, kettles and the like and has for its object the production of a simple and economical device of this character adapted to inventionis better understood, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed. r

Inthe accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is .1 a plan view of a-fals-e perforated. bottom'constructed in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 2, is a central vertical sectional view of a cooking utensil with my invention applied therei Referring now more particularly to the drawings, the numeral 1 represents a stew pan or other utensil and 2 the false perforated bottom arranged therein. In the referred embodiment of my invention, said ottom is preferably mass in circular form and is provided with an annular indentation 3 in its upper face preferably concentric with its edge to provide an a'zianular spacing rib 4 to hold it above the be tom of a stew pan or other .cookingutensila which it may be applied.

From the foregoin description taken in connection with the a :ompanying drawings, the construction and peration of the invention will be readily iClBI'StOOd without requiring a more extened explanation.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is A false bottom con: prising a circular plate having a downwardly projecting beaded outer edge, an annular indentation in said plate forming a downwardly projecting rib remote from the edge of said plate, perfora- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing w1tnesses.

' JOHN KLINE.

Witnesses CARL W. ESAU,

CnAs. Esau.

sil, but being entirely unattached therefrom,

tions in said plate, both without and within 

